Tell Newt to Shut Up

David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times. Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, and a trilogy about the 1960s—Rome 1960; Once in a Great City (winner of the RFK Book Prize); and They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History).

• ContentsPrologue Crying TimeOne General GingrichTwo Let the Lobby Boys InThree A Moderate Turns RightFour John Kasich's Dream MachineFive Revenge of the Business ClassSix Dick Armey's Big BootSeven "Thank You, God!"Eight Hawk versus HawkNine The HammerTen War of WordsEleven "Tell Newt to Shut Up!"Twelve "You're Just Being the Beaver!"EpilogueNote on SourcesAcknowledgmentsIndex

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